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Preparing your business for European expansion can prove exciting, successful, overwhelming, and stressful — often simultaneously. If you’re a US or UK business owner, the current policies and procedures you currently have in place for your employees may not comply with the labor laws of countries in Europe.

Compliance with the European Union (EU), national, and regional employment regulations and labor laws is vital to ensure your company’s successful growth. Whether you choose to hire remote teams or inhouse staff, you need to build a solid Human Resources (HR) foundation to create a healthy, thriving workplace.

Outsourcing HR audit services and other fundamental HR tasks for companies expanding into Europe may provide numerous benefits. Let the knowledgeable team at Europe HR Solutions conduct your HR audits so that you can focus on the big picture and grow your company.

What you need to know about HR audit services

If you’ve already launched a small or mid-sized company in the US or UK, then you know that HR audits are a vital component to reflect on your company’s best practices and opportunities for growth.

A well-managed, yearly company audit can be the difference between struggling or flourishing in the European expansion of your business. Let’s take a look at the definition and importance of HR audits, the different types of HR audits, how Europe HR Solutions can help, and whether or not you should outsource your HR audit services.

What is an HR audit?
Different types of HR audits
Why HR audit services are important for European company expansion
How Europe HR Solutions can help
Why you should outsource HR audit services
HR audit checklist for companies expanding into Europe
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What is an HR Audit ?

Every business requires HR tasks, and you should ensure that your US or UK business has well-established HR practices in place before you expand your operations to Europe. However, the nuances in each country’s culture and business practices may mean you need to make some changes to the practices you implemented at home.

An HR audit is a way to objectively look at the policies and procedures you’ve created and how they contribute to the success or stagnation of your company. However, you’ll have to determine what type of HR audit you need to correctly assess your employees and internal practices.

For example, if you primarily employ remote talent, your policies and procedures may look vastly different than if you have a full in-person team.

Different types of HR audits

At Europe HR Solutions, we understand that you may need custom HR audit services that will allow you to assess specific areas of your company so that you can address any concerns or necessary changes.

Some of the different types of HR audit services you may need include:

Best practices audit

A best practices audit allows you to compare the practices you’ve implemented as your company expands to Europe.

Whether you outsource this type of HR audit or choose to have an inhouse HR department conduct it, it will analyze, compare, and contrast your practices with other companies in your market operating in the European countries where you’ve chosen to expand.

Compliance audit

Compliance audits are among the most important audits for your company. Your outsourced or inhouse HR team should regularly conduct a compliance audit to ensure your company adheres to the employee regulations and labor laws in place in any European country you chose to establish your business.

Labor laws can constantly evolve, and if you fail to comply, you could find your business the target of lawsuits, legal sanctions, or even closure.

Policies Audit

Your internal policies should remain consistent and customized for the type of workforce you employ. As your company grows from a small to a middle-sized business, you may find that additional operational policies need to be implemented.

An HR policies audit can pinpoint where your employee handbooks and procedures need to be changed or enforced.

Function-specific Audit

You may find that as you establish the European expansion of your company, you need to focus on one specific area of HR to audit.

For example, perhaps you feel your benefits implementation or payroll practices need to be audited. An outsourced HR team can perform a function-specific audit for you.

Job description audit

If you find that your job descriptions need constant updating or don’t contain enough appealing keywords to attract top-tier talent, you may need HR professionals to perform a job description audit.

Culture Audit

An HR culture audit allows you to see the strengths and weaknesses of your workplace culture and find ways to improve it or enhance the positive aspects of your work environment. Outsourcing HR for a culture audit can allow you to gain an important outsider’s perspective.

Strategic Audit

A strategic audit is a comprehensive look at all of your HR practices and needs. This audit will help you to determine how your HR policies are currently implemented and where you need customized HR solutions in the future.

Recruitment (talent-acquisition) audit

It’s important that you have a plan to help you attract the best talent fits for your company needs. An HR team can perform a talent acquisition audit to discover where your open position promotions and hiring processes may need improvement.

You can put HR in Europe out of your mind and focus on your primary work

Many of our clients are based in the US, UK and their biggest struggle is that they have very little to no knowledge of the complexity of the European HR and legal landscape. Working with our Europe HR Solutions team, you will never need to deal with legal compliance or cultural differences for which we take full responsibility.

A good case example of one of our clients, TaylorMade Golf Limited reduced all their risk and liability at the time they were divested from Adidas. We allocated our best HR experts to set up new business branches and transfer 50 employees in 12 different countries. Since their new start up in 2016, we have been their dedicated European HR Business Partner so that the UK HR and Business team could focus on growing their business quicker and more compliant.

European HR Professional, outsourced HR Partner for US-and UK- based companies

Your contact person is an HR professional who actively manages your people business. You get direct answers to your questions in clear English.

We provide you with legal knowledge and assist you with the draft of a project plan per country, which includes full implementation planning, timelines. We are an extension of your company and contact person for you and your employees to ensure the best experience. We are used to operating in a fast paced environment and will turn around ad hoc requests the same day or next day.

Get your European HR managed the way you want

Instead of requiring you to learn new things, we partner with you to make it easy for you to get your European HR managed in the way you want. You get as many or as few details as you like in the format you prefer. You can feel confident you know everything you want to know without wasting time.

Start up

Your employees’ talents and skills drive your business success. And in smaller businesses, the hiring decisions you make can have a much bigger impact on your overall business health. We will deal with the HR and legal compliance, drafting of tailormade employment contracts including the benchmarked remuneration and benefits, the onboarding process and your employer liability management. Read more

Expansion

Are you planning to expand your business internationally? We will provide you with all the legal requirements of your expansion, design recruitment strategy & identification talent needs, recruit and hire employees, set up benefits & insurance planning & maintenance, professionalize payroll coordination, implement local employee handbooks, procedures, policies. Read more

Acquisition & Due Diligence

While there are various levels of thinking during a due diligence process where each issue is influenced by the size of the deal, risk tolerance of acquirer and the acquirer familiarity with specific risk, we will address the key HR potential issues. Read more

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Europe HR Solutions in a nutshell

Europe HR Solution was founded by Inez Vermeulen in September of 2010 with the purpose to provide HR outsourcing Solutions for foreign companies looking to start up, expand or acquire businesses in Europe.

We have been serving more than 200 companies with a wide variety of international HR services within a big portfolio of industries since its foundation in 2010.

Our team members are HR multilingual experts in their own fields and located in several European countries. We become your HR business partner and add value with HR administrative services, professional HR and legal advice, meeting recruitment needs in a timely manner, working with issues of motivation and engagement, providing learning solutions and helping employees develop as individuals, doing benchmarks and lead compensation and benefits, implementing HRIS systems, managing and coordinating European payroll.

Each year, 15% of Europe HR Solutions profits go to Tripura Foundation where Inez supports 40+ children and 15+ elderly with brain changing education and healthy food & medicine programs.

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Expand in Europe with Top HR Expertise

Do you lack time, expertise? Do you want to be legally compliant?

Embark on a streamlined European expansion with Europe HR Solutions. We are your dedicated partner for medical and tech companies.

We have over 25 years of experience. We ensure compliance for industry leaders. Examples include Angiodynamics, Genea, BioMedx, Epredia, Cipla, Quantum, QAD, and Everbridge.

Empower your business with expert HR solutions

Are you looking to hire, start your operations, make more money and grow your business in 30-90 days?

Europe HR Solutions can help you by taking care of all your HR requirements. This allows you to concentrate on growing your company’s profitability and productivity.

Success stories & testimonials

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